Man stabs octogenarian couple to death during botched burglary.

KARACHI -- A man stabbed to death his former employers - an octogenarian couple - and badly injured their male nurse during a botched burglary attempt in a DHA house before police arrested him on Thursday.

Police said that the knife-wielding suspect sneaked into the residence of 85-year-old Mohammad Javed and his 80-year-old wife Salma Javed before sunrise when they were fast asleep and their male nurse Mohammad Farooq too was having rest in another room.

'The dacoit is actually a former employee of the late couple and used to work at their home before he was fired two years ago,' said an official at the Defence police station. 'He has been identified as Nawaz. The couple was living with their daughter and the male nurse used to stay with them at night whenever he was needed to take care of the old couple's health problems,' he said.

On Thursday morning, he said, when the nurse was there and the daughter was asleep in a room on the first floor, the suspect first killed Javed and his wife and then attacked Farooq.

'But Farooq raised alarm as he managed to overpower the suspect, which caused the victims' daughter to awaken and call police immediately. Police rushed to the scene and arrested the suspect,' he added.

The nurse, he said, had suffered serious wounds in the attack and had been admitted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for treatment.

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